A series of short films over 18 months about Somerset cider maker Bere Cider, which produce Gold Rush scrumpy and 5 Acres bottled variety.

This brief piece of footage shows off the wonderful apple blossom found in their orchards at spring time.

Enjoy … there will be more videos about Bere Cider, coming soon!

Cruse Bereavement Care is the leading national charity for bereaved people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We offer support, advice and information to children, young people and adults when someone dies and work to enhance society’s care of bereaved people.

Cruse offers face-to-face, telephone, email and website support. We have a Freephone national helpline and local services, and a website (hopeagain.org.uk) specifically for children and young people. Our services are provided by our network of 5,000 trained volunteers and are confidential and free. Cruse also provides training and consultancy for external organisations and for those who may encounter bereaved people in the course of their work.

Wassail Wassail …

The tradition of wassailing falls into two distinct categories: The house-visiting wassail and the orchard-visiting wassail. The house-visiting wassail is the practice of people going door-to-door, singing and offering a drink from the wassail bowl in exchange for gifts. This practice still exists, but has largely been displaced by caroling. The orchard-visiting wassail refers to the ancient custom of visiting orchards in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year.

Stand Against Violence.

Stand Against Violence (SAV) is a specialist violence prevention charity that focuses on the reduction of interpersonal violence through research based primary prevention measures; namely education. Set up in 2005 following the tragic murder of 17 year old Lloyd Fouracre, SAV aims to prevent future tragedies such as this. With over 9 years experience in violence prevention SAV is experienced in providing workshops and resources that tackle the issue of violence from multiple perspectives…

Surprisingly medical research to help children is poorly funded in the UK. Action Medical Research has a critical job to do in helping fill this gap to protect children. The prospects for finding new cures and treatments are almost within our grasp. We have vital research ready to go – we simply can’t fund it all.